Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.”

— Rumi

202. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

— Rumi

203. “With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”

— Rumi

204. “Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we’ll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.”

— Rumi

205. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

— Rumi

206. “Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.”

— Rumi

207. “There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on.”

— Rumi

208. “Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.”

— Rumi

209. “I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”

— Rumi

210. “Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.”

— Rumi

211. “Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”

— Rumi

212. “You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

— Rumi

213. “The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.”

— Rumi

214. “Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...”

— Rumi

215. “There is a place where words are born of silence.”

— Rumi

216. “Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

— Rumi

217. “Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”

— Rumi

218. “Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”

— Rumi

219. “With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

— Rumi

220. “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

— Rumi

221. “The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”

— Rumi

222. “Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy.”

— Rumi

223. “Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.”

— Rumi

224. “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

— Rumi

225. “I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.”

— Rumi

226. “The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.”

— Rumi

227. “The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”

— Rumi

228. “Whatever you know, or don’t – only Love is real.”

— Rumi

229. “Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.”

— Rumi

230. “Love is the water of life, jump into this water.”

— Rumi

231. “If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”

— Rumi

232. “Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.”

— Rumi

233. “I lost everything I have, I found myself.”

— Rumi

234. “Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”

— Rumi

235. “I am the servant of the Qur’an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.”

— Rumi

236. “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”

— Rumi

237. “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.”

— Rumi

238. “Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel – I am the carpenter of my own soul.”

— Rumi

239. “Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they’re given wings.”

— Rumi

240. “Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.”

— Rumi

241. “Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.”

— Rumi

242. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

— Rumi

243. “Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

— Rumi

244. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

— Rumi

245. “Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe.”

— Rumi

246. “Woman is the light of God.”

— Rumi

247. “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”

— Rumi

248. “There’s courage involved if you want to become Truth.”

— Rumi

249. “Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, But don’t move the way fear makes you move.”

— Rumi

250. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

— Rumi